Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

Mike Love

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Dana Hayter

I think any company that can make a case that it has been damaged by the exclusionary acts affirmed in the Court of Appeals opinion would be able to use the facts from this case once the case becomes final.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

Jerry Smith

It is my understanding that there is a history of a violent acts prior to this. It had something to do with throwing rocks off an overpass at passing cars.

Chuck Hill

I think the analysts will now exclude more stuff than they would have otherwise. If I'm faced with all or none, I'm going to say all. If it's broken out, I'm going to be more reluctant to exclude the indirect costs.

Mike Holmes

He may not have broken any law, but it seems to me there are some serious questions.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Vincent Van Gogh

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

Salman Rushdie

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

Ryan Reynolds

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

Wangari Maathai

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Winston Churchill

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Zachary Quinto

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It's broken into such small pieces.

Warren Gatland

I also see my role over the next three years as developing players who can go to the highest level. We want all our NPC squad to be able to play Super 14.

Sugata Mitra

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Tony Dungy

I think we have a pretty good team. We're still young, we still do things defensively that need some explanation at times. We play very hard, we practice well, we stay focused and those are all good signs. We have a lot of talented guys, so if you can keep that focus, we should be pretty good. I think we are developing into a good team.

Mike Moroski

He ended up having a very solid last year, played very well and we were very pleased. He just seemed to be developing week-by-week until he hurt his thumb. He was essentially playing with less than two hands.

Don Porter

having done very well in the last 10 years in developing softball not only in the international level but also in the national level.

Bill Gross

We can have a big impact not only in the U.S. , but in the developing world.

Hu Jintao

Regardless of person or political party and regardless of what he or it has said or done, we are willing to hold talks on developing cross-Strait relations so long as he or it recognizes the 'One China' principle and the 1992 consensus,

Billy Beane

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Jim Bowden

In the minor leagues the most important thing is developing players. The reason I want to win is I want to develop winning players. So my philosophy is you develop first, but I want to the team to win. I want the players who are prospects and developing learning how to win.

Harold Nicholas

If you were black, you experienced (prejudice). It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it.

Doug Aitken

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

Greg Massoni

It just was a horrible vote, and disgraceful he voted the way he did, as way too many legislators did in the House.

Mike Farrell

They had a horrible season. Horrible ... But I thought they did very well, keeping a lot of kids at home, but they went into a lot of different states, including Maryland. For the record they had, they did very well.

Jim Graham

It's a horrible tragedy for us, but I'm pleased that we had such solid presence and response. I think it's really going to make a difference.

John McCormick

It's a horrible thing for people to do." ()

Jamie Foxx

They really want to say how horrible it was at the Superdome, about how horrible it was with the whole hurricane.

Jill Soloway

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Mike Olson

It was a horrible night. I put $10,000 to $12,000 into my car. It's my life. I just can't stand to have something like this taken away from me.

Austin Wilson

I now what the same sense of security and safety that I used to preach to others about.

Martti Ahtisaari

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Toshack

The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.

Amber Klages

The situation here was really unorganized and players would show up if they wanted to while others wouldn't so you couldn't work on plays in practice.

David Allen

Actually I worked with others in small partnerships for most of my career.

Marcello Lippi

Some players can be certain, others a little less,

John Beckman

Some people think it's because he was left-handed, others think he wrote like this to keep people from stealing his ideas. We don't know for sure, though.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Zakk Wylde

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Kathy Reichs

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

John Adams

Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.

Emo Philips

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

Noah Wyle

Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Kevin Nealon

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Mitch Hedberg

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'